Word: crockers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the American Society of Arts and Sciences' medal for great scientific achievement, according to an announcement made yesterday by Walter Russell, president of the Society. Dr. William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research was awarded the Society's second medal...
...cast is not yet entirely determined, but for the men's parts I. C. Martin '34, J. E. Beaumont '33, P. G. Hoffman '32, and J. S. Jennison '30 are definitely slated, while Rosemary McHugh, Betty Crocker, and Jane Mast will take three of the four women's parts...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...Washington last week in the new Fokker "flying wing" observation plane (TIME, Sept. 29) flew Pilot-Lieut. Harrison G. Crocker and Fokker Engineer Stephen A. Forberger, co-designer of the craft. Over the city's outskirts one of the Fokker's gasoline tanks ran dry, cutting both motors. Aware that Pilot Crocker, who had never flown the plane before, would not know what valve to turn. Engineer Forberger hastily clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane...
Investments of life insurance companies will be $18,900,000,000 at the end of the year, said Walton Lee Crocker, president of John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Boston. This will be a gain of $1,418,000,000 over last year, a 100% gain over 1923. Real estate mortgage investments amount to 40.3% of the total; stocks & bonds to 37.6%, foreign and U. S. government and municipal bonds to 7%.-Railroad securities will constitute 17% of holdings, against 35% in 1906. Public utility holdings will be up 16.2% for this year, against a gain of 9.4% last...